judge rules satire privilege of the elite

Canadian Justice James J. Keaney found a 75-year-old man guilty of issuing death threats against a city official after the man posted a poem about burying her in a pothole around the neighborhood in which she refused to fix potholes. The man claimed it was satire.

Keaney (said) because Batista does not have a high level of education it’s unlikely he knows what satire is and therefore the poem could not have been written in jest.